Word: hit-and-run
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...troops faced a tough battle to restore order in Panama City, where looters, some reportedly shouting, "Viva Bush!" ransacked stores and homes and where Noriega's misnamed Dignity Battalions, a paramilitary force, were putting up a street-to-street fight. Noriega's loyalists, apparently at his direction, staged hit-and-run attacks. On Friday, two days after American military commanders began declaring victory, they fired shells at the headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command. The Pentagon admitted that its forces had encountered stiffer resistance than expected, and Bush ordered an additional 2,000 troops to Panama as reinforcements. Meanwhile, Endara...
...fighting, suspending constitutional liberties and imposing strict curfews. It was not only the sudden flare-up of the long-stalemated situation that caught Salvadorans by surprise, but it was also the scope and intensity of the conflagration. Until now, the F.M.L.N. has relied primarily on the traditional hit-and-run tactics of guerrilla warfare, never winning, but never losing decisively. By taking their battle to the capital, the rebels were forced to stand their ground in a more conventional way. But the guerrillas lack the equipment to rival the Salvadoran army's U.S.-supplied planes and helicopter gunships...
...troops, but he has moved with unexpected astuteness, politically and militarily. A much heralded mujahedin assault on the city of Jalalabad has bogged down in a costly siege. In a battle plan now called a "disaster" by a U.S. official, the guerrillas failed to make the transition from hit-and-run attackers to disciplined militiamen able to plan and carry out complicated offensives...
...Mandela football team and youth groups from Soweto schools have been fighting hit-and-run battles for more than two years, and residents of the neighborhood have accused team members of everything from rape to car theft. In late December the gang abducted four young men from a Methodist Church refuge, took them to Mandela's house and beat them repeatedly. One of the youngsters escaped; the team released two others after 2 1/2 weeks; and the body of the fourth, a 14-year-old named Stompie Mokhetsi, was located last week in a mortuary where it had lain unidentified...
...worthy of a political campaign." All during the week he spoke with feeling about two crime victims he knew well: his father, a doctor, who was once bound, gagged and beaten in his office by an addict looking for drugs, and his brother Stelian, killed by a hit-and-run driver. "I know something about crime," he said. "I don't need any lectures from George Bush on the subject...